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flyinfishman

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Any ideas on good live food for hatchets?
Somthing that will float, yet not fly away?

I recently put a small live spider I found in my house in there and they went nuts.

The live fruit flies that Petco sells as 'flightless', all have wings and are clearly buzzing around in that disgusting tube filled with bluish goo.
I can picture opening the tube and having fruit flies everywhere.

On the topic of live food, what about for the Cardinals? They don't eat off the surface since all the hatchets swim in the upper part of the tank, so something live that would swim around for them to chase?
thanks!

29G planted/wood/slate

5 Giant Silver Hatchetfish (Thoracocharax stellatus)
3 Marbled Hatchetfish (Carnegiella strigata strigata)
7 Cardinal Tetras
1 Zebra Oto

3G planted/wood

2 Ghost shrimp
1 Singapore shrimp
 
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Don't know if I can help (I'm a newbie when it comes to live food), but I'll try. Not sure about hatchets, my guess would be fruitflies, so no ideas here. As for the cardinals, I think bloodworms and brine shrimp would work.
 
How about microworms sometimes called walterworms?
 
Never heard of those...I might ask when I go back to the shop.
I saw some really teeny tiny crickets the hatchets might like, If I can get them in the tank without hopping away.

I've found that by keeping the variety of food up, they all stay excited at feeding time, but anything live they tend to go into frenzy...probably like getting a steak when you're used to spam.

frozen brine shrimp for the cardinals is a bit messy and a lot of them spit it out cause it's a little too big.
 
I have an African Butterfly Fish who does the same thing when I give him bugs that I find laying around. I have had success with store bought crickets but I don't like to keep them around because of their **** chirping. If I go to the pet store I might pick him up a half a dozen. But what I usually feed him are frozen bloodworms. I'll float the frozen cube on the surface and he picks at it as it thaws out and while doing so he distributes the food all over the tank for me.
 
Microworms are very small but multiply fast. They're good for young or small fish, cardinals would probably be ok. Also other worms like white worms and vinegar eels. Never kept the vinegar eels. White worms are kind of a pain I found.
 
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